FICTION: Salt Box in My Tear Ducts (Parker, Logan/Parker)
Salt Box in my Tear Ducts
Characters/Pairing: Parker, Logan/Parker
Summary: Parker’s always believed the saying that says life’s too short.
Rating: PG / Word Count: 595
Author's Note: Spoilers through 3x20. Loose sequel to Coffee Rings On My Boyfriend, but can definitely be read alone. Feedback = love.
Parker’s always believed in the saying that says life’s too short and lived her life by the one that tells her to live everyday like it’s her last (because one day it will be).
It’s always sounded like a pretty smart thing to live by but when she moves to Neptune she realizes it’s not only a good way but a necessary way to live life in a town with, what seems to her, has to be the biggest crime rate in the country.
Ever since she got to town, she’s felt overwhelmed by the all the second-hand stories about the murders of loved ones and first-hand experiences with things like rape. Everyday it seems like Veronica’s trying to solve a new murder and she can’t help but think that one day (way to soon) it’s going to be her in the crime scene photos.
That fact alone isn’t enough to make her pack her bags and jump on the next flight to Phoenix (because it would prove her mother right). It is enough, however, to make her storm through the door of Logan Echolls suite and break up with him once and for all when he beats Piz to a bloody pulp.
She successfully yells across her point, unsuccessfully manages to look hide the pain in her voice, and slams the door behind her when she realizes the battle with her tears is a losing one. Life’s too short to stay with a guy whose so obviously in love with his ex (no matter how great he is).
She tells herself this (repeats the words, hoping they’ll stick) as she slams her way out of his suite and tries to push the escaped tears back into her eyes and off her cheeks before they stain the truth all over her face in big red blotches. She more or less succeeds until she sees the girl whose suppose to be her friend get off the elevator.
Veronica’s appearance is like a box of salt being dumped into her tears and the water stings behind her eyes as she tries to make her escape into the elevator, pushing the button repeatedly with quick, angry, bitter jabs. She won’t cry in front of Veronica, she refuses to, and as the other girl tries to talk to her, Parker’s screaming on the inside. She needs to get away from Veronica, needs to run away to her dorm room where the only witness to her tears will be Mac and Cherry Garcia. She needs away. Because it’s not enough that she knows the other blonde is there to yell at him too. (The two of them can deny it and date all the other people they want but Parker knew the truth from the beginning and that’s what kills her.)
She knew she would just be a stand in before he even asked her out but she said yes anyway when he did. She said yes and let herself play the part of the girl he loved (when she knew she wasn‘t). She let herself fall for the boy whose smile could make her heart beat a thousand times faster than it was meant to because she told herself that she didn’t mind, she wasn’t looking for permanent either, and it would get better anyway. She told herself that he’d get over Veronica eventually. But then he attacked Piz, proved her wrong, and efficiently broke her heart in the process.
She only manages to hold the tears back long enough for the elevator ding to ring in her ears.
Characters/Pairing: Parker, Logan/Parker
Summary: Parker’s always believed the saying that says life’s too short.
Rating: PG / Word Count: 595
Author's Note: Spoilers through 3x20. Loose sequel to Coffee Rings On My Boyfriend, but can definitely be read alone. Feedback = love.
Parker’s always believed in the saying that says life’s too short and lived her life by the one that tells her to live everyday like it’s her last (because one day it will be).
It’s always sounded like a pretty smart thing to live by but when she moves to Neptune she realizes it’s not only a good way but a necessary way to live life in a town with, what seems to her, has to be the biggest crime rate in the country.
Ever since she got to town, she’s felt overwhelmed by the all the second-hand stories about the murders of loved ones and first-hand experiences with things like rape. Everyday it seems like Veronica’s trying to solve a new murder and she can’t help but think that one day (way to soon) it’s going to be her in the crime scene photos.
That fact alone isn’t enough to make her pack her bags and jump on the next flight to Phoenix (because it would prove her mother right). It is enough, however, to make her storm through the door of Logan Echolls suite and break up with him once and for all when he beats Piz to a bloody pulp.
She successfully yells across her point, unsuccessfully manages to look hide the pain in her voice, and slams the door behind her when she realizes the battle with her tears is a losing one. Life’s too short to stay with a guy whose so obviously in love with his ex (no matter how great he is).
She tells herself this (repeats the words, hoping they’ll stick) as she slams her way out of his suite and tries to push the escaped tears back into her eyes and off her cheeks before they stain the truth all over her face in big red blotches. She more or less succeeds until she sees the girl whose suppose to be her friend get off the elevator.
Veronica’s appearance is like a box of salt being dumped into her tears and the water stings behind her eyes as she tries to make her escape into the elevator, pushing the button repeatedly with quick, angry, bitter jabs. She won’t cry in front of Veronica, she refuses to, and as the other girl tries to talk to her, Parker’s screaming on the inside. She needs to get away from Veronica, needs to run away to her dorm room where the only witness to her tears will be Mac and Cherry Garcia. She needs away. Because it’s not enough that she knows the other blonde is there to yell at him too. (The two of them can deny it and date all the other people they want but Parker knew the truth from the beginning and that’s what kills her.)
She knew she would just be a stand in before he even asked her out but she said yes anyway when he did. She said yes and let herself play the part of the girl he loved (when she knew she wasn‘t). She let herself fall for the boy whose smile could make her heart beat a thousand times faster than it was meant to because she told herself that she didn’t mind, she wasn’t looking for permanent either, and it would get better anyway. She told herself that he’d get over Veronica eventually. But then he attacked Piz, proved her wrong, and efficiently broke her heart in the process.
She only manages to hold the tears back long enough for the elevator ding to ring in her ears.